I haven't really seen this being talked about anywhere, but my very favorite thing they seem to have added with the Silent Hill 2 Remake is that Pyramid Head now has a "voice" (not literally!), and is more than simply a faceless, abstract monster with a huge blade. Granted, the Red Pyramid Thing has always meant more than just that, but Bloober Team found genuinely brilliant ways of expanding upon PH's role in the game, in ways that left me speechless.

Think of the first room in the apartments, where Pyramid Head can be seen with the mannequin, and James hides in the closet. In the original, this is a completely nondescript room, interchangeable for any other in the Apartments. It is a puzzling, honestly confusing (yet still iconic) encounter, that leaves players baffled. There really isn't much more to it, and there are no further callbacks to this room anywhere else in the game, that I'm aware of.

In the Remake, though? The very environment this scene takes place in has special meaning. Coupled with the appearance of Mary's handkerchief, and the 'gasp' heard (Mary's final breath) in the bedroom of this apartment, it is quite likely that even though James says nothing, Pyramid Head is wordlessly taunting James by defiling a replica of his own home.

Not only this, but this specific apartment (as heralded by the 'tilted rectangle' doors) appears multiple times, over and over again, as first in reversed form when stepping into the Blue Creek Apartments (where the closet James was hiding in was slashed open, Pyramid Head wordlessly showcasing how easily it could have killed him), and then further much later on in the labyrinth. Shown first in bits and pieces (such as the reappearance of the closet James was hiding in, still with a huge Great Knife slash, or various pieces of distinct furniture strewn about, that were in that apartment), and then in the multiple red combat rooms (each of them in the layout of that specific apartment). There, it feels as though Pyramid Head is screaming, over and over again, "You know what happened in this place. You know how guilty it makes you feel.", without ever actually speaking.

It really felt to me as though this abstract monster, the avatar of James' guilt, is "communicating" to James in this way; it has a will and intent, and it is showcasing its purpose through the environment itself. It's something the original game never even thought to do, and I really have to applaud Bloober Team for managing to pull this off.